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The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros |  | Director: Auraeus Solito
Actor: Soliman Cruz; JR Valentin; Neil Ryan Sese; Ping Medina; Bodjie Pascua; Nathan Lopez
Studio: TLA
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 34885
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: Tagalog (Unknown), English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 807839002935
UPC: 807839002935
EAN: 0807839002935
ASIN: B000Q677HC
Release Date: August 28, 2007
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Product Description
Maxi, a twelve-year-old Filipino boy, crushes on a policeman who is investigating Maxi's family of thieves.
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 A Wonderful Slice of Life June 2, 2010
K. pratt (Midwest USA)
This film will transport you to a colorful slum neighborhood in The Phillipines, where you will meet Maxi, a 12 year-old feminine boy, and the ragtag cast of characters who surround him. When I began to watch this movie, I simply was not prepared for the potent emotional experience that it turned out to be. The viewer becomes absolutely immersed in the poignant intimate moments that Maxi experiences as the vibrant life of the city swirls around him.
This movie offers the viewer numerous moments of giddy lightness as well as several scenes of intense sorrow and violence. I believe that these elements of light and dark balance each other very nicely. We see Maxi lively and happy and carefree but we also see him suffer and cry. Nathan Lopez, who portrays Maxi, gets every moment right. By the time the movie ends, we feel that we know this boy very well and that we have shared many important experiences with him.
Most of the dialogue is spoken in the local Filipino dialect, with just a smidgen of English thrown in. The subtitles are not intrusive and I had no difficulty keeping up with the story.
This is a great film on a very small scale. Seeing this movie will serve to freshen up your perspective on life. You will feel good and you will feel different.
I use this film for my Filipino American and Asian American Studies courses at CAL and city college of San Francisco. February 5, 2010
Mr. Michael D. Parayno (Berkeley, CA)
excellent. it won the audience award at the SF Asian American Film Festival when it debuted.
 wow, not what I thought the advertising promises December 30, 2009
Kevinep (Montreal, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very disappointing, the story has potential but the film fails to deliver more than a few nuggets.
Acting was poor. Story was not believable.
I expected a warm coming of age story about a typical gay pre-teen growing up in the slums of Manila. It does a reasonable job of depicting the slums, poverty, petty thievery, family bonds, and corruption of the police. But I just can't believe the main character. He is off the scale effeminate gay; I found it difficult to believe this character would survive in the surroundings he existed in. I have never seen a boy behave like he did or dress in this way - I just found him hard to believe, not genuine, more like an over-acted stereotype. It didn't work for me.
Poor acting, poorly written script, and characters not believable......I was really disappointed.
A BOY TORN June 16, 2009
Terry J. Lehane
I cannot say enough good about this picture from the Philippines. This story of a gay boy who bonds with the cop who is out to destroy his family is in Tagalog with subtitles. Heart rending and subtle. Please don't miss it. Particularly telling is the "long walk" ending which, I am sure, is taken from The Third Man.
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros December 24, 2008
Mark T. Von Seggern (Denver, CO USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Maximo is trying to find love with another guy. It never gets anywhere near the point of an x Rating, but he does find someone in an older guy who happens to be a police man. Well, the guy finds out that Maximo has a crush on him and tries to let him down easy, but Maximo is crushed/shattered. In the end Maximo does seem to get things going to here he is on his way to find a lover/friend. It's worth watching again and again, but if an x-rating is needed then this is not the one.
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